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Thread: Non-Japanese youtubers who talk about Japan/learning Japanese Post: Non-Japanese youtubers who talk about Japan/learni... Maybe a bit on the mundane side, but I liked watching this fellow's videos a lot http://www.youtube.com/user/MrStepupMovies He's just a regular studious kid who talks about the books and study materi... |
Mushi | General discussion | 6 | 1,848 | 2013-02-20, 7:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Speeding up audio Post: Speeding up audio Video players vary in how good they are at "scaling" audio, but ffmpeg seems to give better results than they do. Probably that's because it's a conversion program rather than a real-time player, so i... |
Mushi | Learning resources | 4 | 876 | 2013-02-16, 12:41 am | ||
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Thread: Speeding up audio Post: Speeding up audio I was wondering if anyone else has had experience speeding up their Japanese audio files in order to get through them more quickly and efficiently. I originally stumbled upon this when I accidentally... |
Mushi | Learning resources | 4 | 876 | 2013-02-15, 7:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Grammar? Post: Grammar? nadiatims Wrote:Why not just let the language evolve and over time become simpler? If the natives are not picking up on certain aspects of the grammar naturally, how crucial can they really be? That's... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 77 | 11,223 | 2013-02-13, 9:25 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Marumaru Wrote:What would this mean? From a TV show: 彼氏１人じゃヤダヤダ女 LOL (at the content). ヤダ=嫌だ |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-02-13, 8:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Reason why I can't get myself to use AJATT Post: Reason why I can't get myself to use AJATT Hashiriya Wrote:yup... learning Japanese is a huge time-sink... if you aren't ready to commit, don't bother. Too many of my classmates thought they could learn Japanese to fluency with VERY minimal ef... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 93 | 21,668 | 2013-02-13, 8:24 pm | ||
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Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text Kurotowa Wrote:It is possible that I release the OCR package as a library at some point (I have not yet decided what kind on license it would have), but my priority right now is completing the program... |
Mushi | Learning resources | 139 | 56,490 | 2013-02-13, 8:19 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread headphone_child Wrote:It feels like "you're selfish" doesn't really fit that interpretation, but maybe it's something like "you are selfish (but that's ok)" as opposed to "grr you're so selfish". Of c... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-02-13, 12:31 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Rayath Wrote:headphone_child Wrote:I'm trying to understand these lines from a song: 我儘はあなたの分だよ 我慢したあなたの分だよ I think it's something like: The one that was selfish was you. The one that tried to put u... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-02-13, 9:25 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread dtcamero Wrote:or it's related to のだ... i.e. an explanatory feeling? Yes, I think it is, although I'd say it's more like an abbreviation of "のか". It sets up an empathetic connection by acknowledging t... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-02-09, 12:56 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread dtcamero Wrote:but recently a friend told me that 座りたいの？doesn't actually mean "do you want to sit?", but actually is a more pushy kind of "you want to sit down don't you??"... could someone please exp... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-02-08, 4:51 pm | ||
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Thread: The "Valid/Invalid Reasons for Learning Japanese" phenomena Post: The "Valid/Invalid Reasons for Learning Japanese" ... A framework that's often helpful when looking at peoples' various motivations for performing an activity is to look at a motivation or needs theory, like for example, Maslow's hierarchy of needs. In ... |
Mushi | Off topic | 61 | 15,314 | 2013-02-05, 2:01 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! Zgarbas Wrote:I don't know how many issues a 3rd grader would have with the actual language of the N1(there's politics, business and keigo around there), but I think their main problem would be with r... |
Mushi | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,544 | 2013-02-05, 1:33 am | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! Mushi Wrote:I'd have been willing to bet money on my sister passing N1 at 2nd grade. I should add though, that confidentally, our mother was one of those "tiger moms" who made us start reading and stu... |
Mushi | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,544 | 2013-02-04, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! Fillanzea Wrote:I'm not sure that a Japanese 3rd grader could pass N1, because it has a fair amount of political/economic/current events vocabulary, as well as making some pretty fine distinctions bet... |
Mushi | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,544 | 2013-02-04, 5:11 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! Zgarbas Wrote:The samples are easier than what's on the exam Ah, all the more reason for me to be impressed - and for me to take N5. :) When I originally read the thread, I pictured JLPT as being mor... |
Mushi | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,544 | 2013-02-04, 3:50 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2012 Results! Post: JLPT 2012 Results! Irixmark Wrote:It's not necessarily "elitism" but also the experience that N1 is what will help you get a job in Japan, N2 possibly as a signal that you're already pretty far ahead in your language st... |
Mushi | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 96 | 25,544 | 2013-02-04, 1:44 pm | ||
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Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year. mezbup Wrote:http://supernewsoftware.com/tenthousandwords.php •10000 / 1460 = 6.8 years to basic fluency. •30000 / 1460 = 20.54 years to reach native proficiency This actually sounds very good to me. ... |
Mushi | General discussion | 249 | 67,239 | 2013-02-03, 4:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese kanji books? Post: Japanese kanji books? Ah, good idea! A search for kanken brought up a variety of books. A lot of them are a bit hard-core for my taste, since I'm not taking kanken, and would be reading more than cramming for an exam. The... |
Mushi | Learning resources | 2 | 463 | 2013-02-02, 2:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese kanji books? Post: Japanese kanji books? I enjoy occasionally reviewing my Heisig books, although what bugs me about them (and I've mentioned this before) is that there's no Japanese edition of his books. I'm not all that great at context sw... |
Mushi | Learning resources | 2 | 463 | 2013-02-02, 2:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Core deck without the BS Post: Core deck without the BS egoplant Wrote:I said business, but I guess I meant political as well. Here are just a couple words I added today alone: 政治家 府立 政党 野党 I can't imagine words like this popping up outside of the news o... |
Mushi | Learning resources | 65 | 11,801 | 2013-01-28, 4:38 am | ||
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Thread: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig. Post: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig. blankkor Wrote:Mushi Wrote:nohika Wrote:Just a friendly reminder to keep things as civil as possible without any type of personal attack. Things haven't escalated that far yet, but let's try to preven... |
Mushi | Remembering the Kanji | 110 | 21,139 | 2013-01-27, 2:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig. Post: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig. nohika Wrote:Just a friendly reminder to keep things as civil as possible without any type of personal attack. Things haven't escalated that far yet, but let's try to prevent that. If you have questio... |
Mushi | Remembering the Kanji | 110 | 21,139 | 2013-01-27, 1:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig. Post: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig. If RTK isn't working for you and you want to go a different route, that's certainly fine, and in fact, great that you're actively adjusting your study to suit your needs. But keep in mind that if you... |
Mushi | Remembering the Kanji | 110 | 21,139 | 2013-01-26, 1:40 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread yudantaiteki Wrote:It's mostly used in captions or voiceover narration. It's almost like "Nirasu is on the screen right now, he is full of curiosity." Like you say, I think it's exactly like a captio... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-01-23, 9:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese and language fossilization Post: Japanese and language fossilization corry Wrote:Mushi Wrote:In other words, her output skill remained fossilized at the level where she had still not learned how to use the past participle. I think that she maybe wouldnt have developed ... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 76 | 12,931 | 2013-01-23, 9:27 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2013 Preparations Post: JLPT 2013 Preparations 冷たい・寒い This reminds me how once, some people asked me how to say "cold" in Japanese. I asked them which cold they meant - there was one for when an object is cold, and another for when the ambient te... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 47 | 12,459 | 2013-01-22, 11:23 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread When I've heard people speaking about other households, or when I've seen in with furigana in history books to refer to prominent clans, it's always been け. |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,453,283 | 2013-01-22, 11:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese and language fossilization Post: Japanese and language fossilization corry Wrote:@Mushi Wait, are we talking about always making the same mistakes or about never learning to understand some part of the language. Making the same mistakes. In this particular example, th... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 76 | 12,931 | 2013-01-22, 9:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese and language fossilization Post: Japanese and language fossilization SendaiDan Wrote:Some of the worst advice I've ever heard. Particularly point number two. Who would be so arrogant to do that? Some of it does sound fishy to me as well. Fossilization is less about the... |
Mushi | The Japanese language | 76 | 12,931 | 2013-01-22, 12:02 am | ||
